1978 Agoura-Malibu Firestorm Translation On Other Language:

On October 23, 1978, at least eight significant wildfires began in the Los Angeles area. At around noon that day, an arsonist started a fire that eventually burned 25,000 acres from Cornell to Broad Beach in Malibu. The first fire alarm in Agoura was reported at 12:11 PM, and by 2:30 PM, the fire had reached the Pacific Ocean 13 miles south in Malibu. It had been declared a Level 2 (maximum emergency) fire at 1:57 PM.